Cook County Opinion
-
Democrats begin socialist policiesJun 21, 2008 11:00 pm - The U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate, both controlled by Democrats, are about to pass the war funding bill. To get the funding, the president is going t...
-
It's the wrong time for John McCainJun 20, 2008 11:00 pm - Now that Bush and the Republicans have basically ruined the country, making Jimmy Carter's presidency look like a resounding success, along comes John McCain -- the perf...
-
Saturday Soapbox: Cook and Lake countiesJun 20, 2008 11:00 pm - Rolling Meadows on risky course In barricading entrances to an apartment complex and setting up a police checkpoint, Rolling Meadows officials say they were responding t...
-
The problem with untrained dogsJun 20, 2008 11:00 pm - Dog excrement and urine spread disease, worms, ticks and is just disgusting and an insult to others. Since 1962, we have had three dogs, all trained easily to use a 7-by...
-
We must sever ties to United NationsJun 20, 2008 11:00 pm - Congressman Ron Paul's historic legislation, House Bill 1146, will end the United States membership in the United Nations. The internationalist Pelosi Democrats now runn...
-
Fighting terrorists with legal systemJun 20, 2008 11:00 pm - I see by the questionable decision by the Supreme Court that we are taking the first steps to fighting the war on terror with the legal system again. This is basically ...
-
Saturday Soapbox: Fox ValleyJun 20, 2008 11:00 pm - Not this year for public works If officials in Carpentersville think the village can break ground on a public works facility this fall, they must know something no one e...
-
A father suffers saddest news of allJun 20, 2008 11:00 pm - I was reading an article about a murder sentencing in the June 5 Daily Herald when I realized I knew the father of the victim. Forty years ago, a large group of us then...
-
We must rein in big oil companiesJun 20, 2008 11:00 pm - On June 3, a column appeared by John Stossel in which he criticized Democrats for wanting to do something about the gouging American consumers are getting from the insat...
-
Conservation incentives a boonJun 20, 2008 11:00 pm - Congress sent good news to Lake County and the rest of the nation last month when it renewed a powerful tax incentive for landowners who preserve wildlife habitat, farml...